Indian Tennis ace Rohan Bopanna is out of the US Open Tennis Championship. In the third round of Men's doubles Boppana and his French partner Eduard Roger Veseline were ousted by Colin Fleming and Jonathan Murry 6-4, 6-4 at New York. Earlier Boppana and his Germen partner Guila Georges were eliminated in the mixed doubles first round. India's hopes are now centered on Leander Paes and Sania Mirza who along with there partners avented the Quarter finalsDefending champion Andy Murray and 2001 winner Lleyton Hewitt breezed into the Men's Singles of US Open last 16 stage.Third-seeded Murray, who ended Britain's 76-year wait for a Grand Slam men's champion when he won his maiden major title in New York last year, eased past Germany's world number 49 Florian Mayer, 7-6 , 6-2, 6-2.Murray, the reigning Olympic and Wimbledon champion, will next face Uzbekistan's world number 65 Denis Istomin, who put out Italian 20th seed Andreas Seppi, 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 3-6, 6-1.Meanwhile, Hewitt reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the 30th time with a 6-3, 7-6,6-1 win over Russia's Evgeny Donskoy.Fifth seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic and Swiss ninth seed Stanislas Wawrinka will clash for a spot in the quarter-finals.Berdych eased past French 31st seed Julien Benneteau, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2 while Wawrinka got past unseeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis,6-3, 6-2, 6-7 ,7-6. Defending women's champion Serena Williams defeated US 15th seed Sloane Stephens 6-4, 6-1. Williams booked a quarter-final against Spanish 18th seed Carla Suarez Navarro, who upset German eighth seed Angelique Kerber 4-6, 6-3, 7-6.Also booking a quarter-final matchup were Chinese fifth seed Li, who beat Serbian ninth seed Jelena Jankovic 6-3, 6-0, and Russian 24th seed Ekaterina Makarova, who upset Polish third seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 6-4.
News On AIR | September 2, 2013 8:11 PM
Bopanna out of US Open Tennis Championship